[russellw]

Originally Posted by bananalive

Have you tried un-installing and then re-installing it. The default page when a 'do' isn't called is the smilies so the hooks aren't exec'ing. Do you get any error messages at the top of the page?

Thanks for the response. I have tried installing and uninstalling several times but I shall try again.

There are no errors on the page and none in the error log either but a bit of digging through my upgrade notes shows that we commented out a line in global.php because with it in vbportal refused to run.

the line was:

//	($hook = vBulletinHook::fetch_hook('global_start')) ? eval($hook) : false;

I note that a couple of other hacks use the global_start hook (and I presume this one does too) so I will disable them and see what happens when I uncomment the line.

Cheers
Russ

by way of PS:

After disabling the 3 hacks that used the hook and uncommenting the line, vbportal is the only thing that works - everything else just returns a blank page.

There is an error in the error log (at least):

PHP Fatal error:  require_once() [<a href='function.require'>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required './../global.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/global.php(350) : eval()'d code on line 49

.. so that might make a useful starting point. Of course, line 350 is the hook code shown above which is obviously where the issue is.